British Scientists had discovered a new bug that is more harmful than H1N1 virus called as NDM-1, it is easily transferred to the common bacteria such as E. Coli, with reference to news published in a article. The gene alters bacteria, making them resistant to any powerful antibiotics.

NDM- 1 was first identified in the patients who had undergone plastic surgery in South Asia, containing a unique gene that had ability to turn nearly any other bacteria in to an antibiotic-resistant bug. Up to now, it had affected nearly 37 people who had come from India or Pakistan.

Dr. Martin Blaser, chairperson of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center said that Most of modern medicine is based on the notion that antibiotics would work. If you no longer knew antibiotics worked, you could not do as much surgery, chemotherapy, transplantation.

“We’ve been dealing with antibiotic resistant gene determinants coming from overseas for some time,” said Dr. Christopher Ohl, associate professor of infectious disease at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

This Bacteria was mainly seen in people living in the U.S., Netherlands, Australia, and Canada who have traveled to India for medical care.

Baddour said “What’s happening in India and Pakistan is important, but it’s the second verse of the same song so to speak”.